CRICKET.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 169, 22 November 1876, Page 2

CRICKET.

A cricket match was played on the ground adjoining the Town Hall on Saturday last, between eleven boys of Patea and a like number of Wairoa, resulting-in a shameful thrashing being administered to the Patea youngsters, they being whipped to the tunc of one innings, and three runs to spare. So great a defeat may be attributed to the Patea boys not practising sufficiently, and fancying that it was impossible to lose, on account of their defeating thenopponents on two previous occasions. The Wairoa’s in every particular of the game, showed themselves superior. The fielding of the Pafba boys was something disgraceful. We think the result of this match will have a good effect upon our juvenile representatives, for we believe they will go in heavy for practice, and at the nest meeting of these rival clubs, prove themselves worthy of the confidence placed in them by their backers. On Saturday next, 25th hist, wc look forward with great interest to witnessing the match of the season—Wanganui v. Patea. We hear great accounts of the Wanganui team, as to their strength, for they boar the name of being first-class in every feature of the game. Their bowling more especially, is spoken of as there being “no standing it.” We were told that our local club could not hold a candle to Wairoa, yet they did; wo were also informed that it was folly to expect to win the match with Haw-era, yet they did. We would advise our local club not to pay any attention to luraours of their having to compete with surpassing cricketing excellence, for it tends to intimidate those members of a team who have not been accustomed to take part in a really good match. Wc wisli them every success, and that our visitors may go away with the idea that our little club, consisting only of twelve members, is not to bo despised, and that they can hold their own with a club which has thirty or forty members to choose from. The following arc the names of the Union team :—Cross, Farrington, Betts, Kilgour, Hanson, Hurley, Morgan, Lester, Farrah, Kitchen, and Watson.